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The Rising Place

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The Rising Place
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PG13,1hr 33min
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2002
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Flatland Pictures
Synopsis: A woman learns a valuable lesson about her family as she and her aunt look back at her troubled past in this independent drama. As Virginia Wilder (Frances Fisher) visits her elderly Aunt Millie (Alice Drummond) for the Christmas holidays, she discovers a number of letters she received during the 1940s, and gains a new and clearer picture of Millie's life when she was younger. Teenaged Emily (Laurel Holloman) falls in love with a soldier who soon ships out to fight in World War II, but not before ... Full Synopsis
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Broadway dreamgirl Jennifer Holliday's musical interludes occasionally relieve this mélange of recycled social morality lessons. Full Review
Metascore
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32
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out of 100
Featured Cast
Emily Hodge
Wilma Watson
Will Bacon
Emmett Wilder
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